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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Russia Defense Watch: Tu-160 threat rises


Tu-160 Blackjack (White Swan)
Russian policymakers Thursday boosted their threat to deploy supersonic Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" -- NATO designation Blackjack -- nuclear bombers in Cuba to say they might put them in Venezuela and Algeria, too.

Like the original threat, floated July 21, to deploy the Blackjacks in Cuba, this one was reported Thursday in the Moscow newspaper Izvestia and also was attributed to unidentified sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

The day after the first Izvestia report ran, U.S. Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz, at his confirmation hearing to be the next USAF chief of staff on July 22 before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, solemnly warned that sending the super-bombers to operate out of Cuba would be crossing "a red line in the sand."

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